Investigations

“The Russian cosmist Nikolai Fedorov argued for creating ancestor simulations and digitally resurrecting everyone who has ever lived.”

Not settled yet. 1 not yet settled.

Review 0% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The original Star Trek season 2 episode "The Apple" depicts a civilization living in a paradise secretly managed and manipulated by an AI.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9850 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“"Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all of his critics. You know how I know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the...”

Checks out so far. 3 hold up so far.

Score: 0.7734 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 58% · 58% counted

3 claims · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“When Trump fired the Center’s board and appointed himself Chairman, the Kennedy Center had total assets of $691 million and a private endowment of roughly $163 million, tracked by ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and...”

Parts of this hold up; the rest is not settled. 5 hold up so far; 1 not yet settled.

Score: 0.3214 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 66% · 66% counted

6 claims · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The modern use of GPUs in artificial intelligence began with the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, while reinforcement learning as a field began with DeepMind using deep reinforcement learning to win...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9996 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.0823 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and Lucille Ball backed the series; “Mirror, Mirror” depicts an alternate universe with a goateed Spock.”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.9874 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

2 claims · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Tesla Cybercab is projected to cost $30,000.”

Not settled yet. 1 not yet settled.

Review 0% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The two-day weekend is a 20th century invention, whereas earlier Western practice observed a single weekly day of rest.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9993 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Demis Hassabis solved protein folding using AI and subsequently received a Nobel Prize.”

Not settled yet. 1 not yet settled.

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Half the population of the United States cannot put together $500 in an emergency.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.0313 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“At the 2016 Code Conference, Elon Musk said the odds that we are living in base reality are one in a billion.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9988 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Navier-Stokes problem is one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems, and Yang-Mills concerns the existence of a mass gap in particle theory.”

Checks out so far. 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.9936 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

2 claims · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Chapter 12 Coasean cluster: Coase's 1937 question and Nobel award, the inference from falling transaction costs to vanishing firms, and whether Uber's matching happens outside its boundary.”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 1 of 3 checkable claims goes against the evidence; 2 hold up so far.

Score: 0.0117 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 83% · 83% counted

3 claims · recorded 21 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.”

Checks out so far. 6 hold up so far.

Score: 0.9102 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 79% · 79% counted

6 claims · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The global population over 65 is projected to grow from 852 million in 2025 to 2 billion by 2060, accounting for more than half of all population growth in that period.”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 2 of 5 checkable claims go against the evidence; 2 hold up so far; 1 not yet settled.

Score: 0.0079 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 70% · 70% counted

5 claims · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Tesla has opened an official interest form for businesses wanting to buy Cybercab fleets and build mobility hubs and charging infrastructure for the robotaxi network, with no pricing or delivery terms announced.”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 1 of 6 checkable claims goes against the evidence; 3 hold up so far; 2 not yet settled.

Review 54% · 54% counted

6 claims · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Dario Amodei has described an end state in which a single company such as Anthropic constitutes all private enterprise.”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 3 of 4 checkable claims go against the evidence; 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.0156 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 62% · 62% counted

4 claims · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“China's daily AI token consumption rose from about 100 billion in early 2024 to about 500 trillion by mid-2026.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9905 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“China Telecom sells access to 142 AI models in the manner of a mobile data plan.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9997 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited